gentilicius
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From gentīlis (“of or belonging to a gens”) + -icius (suffix forming adjectives).[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ɡen.tiːˈli.ki.us/, [ɡɛn̪t̪iːˈlʲɪkiʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /d͡ʒen.tiˈli.t͡ʃi.us/, [d͡ʒen̪t̪iˈliːt͡ʃius]
Adjective
[edit]gentīlicius (feminine gentīlicia, neuter gentīlicium); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | gentīlicius | gentīlicia | gentīlicium | gentīliciī | gentīliciae | gentīlicia | |
genitive | gentīliciī | gentīliciae | gentīliciī | gentīliciōrum | gentīliciārum | gentīliciōrum | |
dative | gentīliciō | gentīliciae | gentīliciō | gentīliciīs | |||
accusative | gentīlicium | gentīliciam | gentīlicium | gentīliciōs | gentīliciās | gentīlicia | |
ablative | gentīliciō | gentīliciā | gentīliciō | gentīliciīs | |||
vocative | gentīlicie | gentīlicia | gentīlicium | gentīliciī | gentīliciae | gentīlicia |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: gentilici
- → English: gentilicious ⇒ gentilician, gentilicial
- → French: gentilice
- → Italian: gentilizio
- → Portuguese: gentilício
- → Spanish: gentilicio
References
[edit]- “gentilicius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “gentilicius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- gentīlĭcĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 708/3.
- “gentīlicius” on page 760/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “gentilicius”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 466/2
- ^ Adams, J. N. (2013) Social Variation and the Latin Language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, , →ISBN, page 555
- ^ Leumann, Manu. 1918. Die Adjektiva auf -ī̆cius. Glotta 9. 134.